I am co-organising a SICSA event at CHI in Vancouver this year.
Details are thin on the ground so far, but they will appear here:
ubiplayground.com/chi/ => chi.ubiplayground.com when the DNS updates

At the moment that page allows those in SICSA universities to sign up, this will let us book a venue with enough space (and buy enough beer) so fill in your details as soon as you can!

There were a few server problems, but we are back up and running.

Hopefully more posts will start to appear now….

Another interesting privacy piece about the growth in location-based advertising.

The article linked to yesterday by Owain regarding the vandalism of homes of those who opted out of google’s Street View service in Germany raises an interesting point for system designers.
The ubiquity of Street View is the very reason that this vandalism is able to take place – people and places are notable by their absence. So how can we design systems and services that allow people NOT to use them?
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Interesting reversal of roles, those who opted out of street view have been targeted with graffiti and eggs.

The sub-domain for the ethics workshop at Chi 2011 in Vancouver is live.
Head over to ethics.ubiplayground.com for more information.

Well, this theme is much lighter. A custom banner which looks like it fits?

Any complaints of it being too bright and it’ll go back to the scary theme.

Most of the posts have been carried from the old site now, enjoy.

It seems the current theme is a little to dark (depressing was the term used) so I think I’ll find a new theme with a nicer tone while Ali has the token for the Workshop document.

A great day of discussions at the Research in the Large workshop at Ubicomp.

Very cool to meet other people working on mass participation systems. Check out the workshop papers.

A new version of Yoshi has been released with a couple of new features.

Update please!